Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D., Theoretical Particle Physics, SUNY Stony Brook Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad's Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad is the Co-Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC. Barad received an honorary doctorate from Gothenburg University in 2016, and is on the faculty of the European Graduate School.

See also: http://people.ucsc.edu/~kbarad/ and http://egs.edu/faculty/karen-barad

"No Small Matter: Mushroom Clouds, Ecologies of Nothingness, and Strange Topologies of SpaceTimeMattering," in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

"On Touching -- The Inhuman That Therefore I Am," in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 23(3): 206-223, 2012 for special issue on Feminist Theory Out of Science (published with errors made on the part of the journal); revised and republished in “On Touching – The Inhuman That Therefore I Am (v1.1),” in Power of Material/ Politics of Materiality (English/German) edited by Susanne Witzgall and Kirsten Stakemeier (German 2014, English 2015).

Selected Exhibitions

An Artistic/ Computer Animation Work: “Quarkland,” 3D computer animations of the physics of elementary particles for a CD-interactive version of Stephen Hawking’s best seller, A Brief History of Time. 1994